Home sweet...machine shop. WW&F Forney #10 simmers quietly inside the museum's machine shop as Road Foreman Dana Deering and CMO Jason Lamontagne debrief Engineer Robert Longo on the day's operations. The crew has just put the locomotive away after the annual "Easter Eggspress" event, which saw their 2-foot gauge passenger train transport over 500 people from Sheepscot to Alna Center in just 4 hours.
Although the spacious shop building in the Sheepscot Yard has 3 larger stalls, the crew prefers to bed down the Number 10 in the machine shop for a number of reasons. First and foremost, this section of the building is the only one with climate controls, so they don't have to worry about freezing temperatures. In addition, the machine shop has all of the facilities they might need in order to perform maintenance on the engine. All of the museum's tools and machining equipment are here, and there is a servicing pit underneath the engine, so running gear repairs can be done. In the near future, the steam stable at the WW&F will be expanding, with the introduction of Locomotive #9 to the fleet. In order to deal with that expansion, the museum does have long-term plans to construct a 3-stall round house with a turntable on the west side of the yard.
